Roberto “Obet” Verzola, an electronics and communications engineering graduate of UP, seized the potential of information technology, primarily email, and used it for the benefit of the public and progressive Filipino advocacy groups whose values he shared.
Benjamin “Benjie” Tan, the Filipino engineer who installed and switched on the Cisco router that allowed the Philippines to connect to the Internet for the first time 25 years ago, has died.
Filipino tech pioneer Jim Ayson, who chronicled the country’s advent into the PC age until the introduction of the Internet and eventually the boom of social media, has died due to heart attack. He was 53.
